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The Exploratorium Teacher Institute created the Teacher Induction Program (TIP) to support those newest to our favorite career: teaching science. We respect new teachers as professionals and strive to respond to their needs by providing a range of science-specific supports designed to welcome them into the Teacher Institute’s long-standing community of science teaching and learning.
We invite novice middle and high school science teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area to apply to this inquiry-based and content-rich professional development program especially created to support them in their science classrooms. Since 1998, we have supported more than 500 novice science teachers during their first years in the classroom. Most of these teachers have chosen to stay in this field, and many of them are now leaders in their schools and districts.
Please consider applying and joining the ranks of thousands of Exploratorium Teacher Institute alumni! Ideal applicants should have less than two years of formal teaching experience in a secondary science classroom (student teaching does not count).
The Exploratorium Teacher Institute's Teacher Induction Program is not associated with California Teacher Induction (formerly Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment or BTSA), and our program is not designed to help new teachers clear their credentials.
The Teacher Induction Program is part of the Exploratorium Teacher Institute. Founded in 1984 by a group of physics teachers and museum scientists, the Exploratorium Teacher Institute has provided thousands of secondary science teachers professional development through our Summer Institutes, Saturday Workshops, conferences, and other teaching and learning programs. Our mission is to create and support a collaborative community of teachers, at all levels of their careers, through professional development that joyfully emphasizes the teaching and learning of science as a process for understanding the world around us.